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UNCLE WALLY 'S WORLD WAR III NEWZ CENTER (20/9/7) 13:23 A.E.S.T. Iran: Retaliation for any Israeli attack |
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Iran: Retaliation for any Israeli attack
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writer
Wed Sep 19, 7:07 PM ET
Iran has drawn up plans to bomb Israel if the Jewish state should
attack, the deputy air force commander said Wednesday, adding to
tensions already heated up by an Israeli airstrike on Syria and
Western calls for more U.N. sanctions against Tehran.
Other Iranian officials also underlined their country's readiness to
fight if the U.S. or Israel attacks, a reflection of concerns in
Tehran that demands by the U.S. and its allies for Iran to curtail its
nuclear program could escalate into military action.
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Sunday that the
international community should prepare for the possibility of war in
the event Iran obtains atomic weapons, although he later stressed the
focus is still on diplomatic pressures.
The comments come as the top U.S. military commander in the Middle
East, Adm. William Fallon, is touring Persian Gulf countries seeking
to form a united front of Arab allies against Iran's growing influence
in the region.
Iran has periodically raised alarms over the possibility of war,
particularly when the West brings up talk of sanctions over Tehran's
rejection of a U.N. Security Council demand that it halt uranium
enrichment.
"We have drawn up a plan to strike back at Israel with our bombers if
this regime (Israel) makes a silly mistake," Iran's deputy air force
commander, Gen. Mohammad Alavi, said in an interview with the
semiofficial Fars news agency.
Alavi warned that Israel is within range of Iran's medium-range
missiles and fighter-bombers.
The Iranian air force had no immediate comment on the Fars report. But
Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammed Najjar told the official IRNA news
agency that "we keep various options open to respond to threats. ...
We will make use of them if required."
Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards also weighed in, saying Iran "has
prepared its people for a possible confrontation against any
aggression."
White House press secretary Dana Perino said Alavi's comment "is not
constructive and it almost seems provocative."
"Israel doesn't seek a war with its neighbors. And we all are seeking,
under the U.N. Security Council resolutions, for Iran to comply with
its obligations" under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, she said.
During a stop in Jerusalem, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said
Washington is committed to diplomacy, but added that the U.S. hasn't
taken any military "options off the table." She said that "it can't be
business as usual" with Iran, a country whose president has spoken of
wiping Israel off the map.
For diplomacy to work, she said, "it has to have both a way for Iran
to pursue a peaceful resolution of this issue and it has to have
teeth, and the U.N. Security Council and other measures are providing
teeth."
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said his government took
Iran's "threat very seriously and so does the international
community."
"Unfortunately we are all too accustomed to this kind of bellicose,
extremist and hateful language coming from Iran," he said.
Israeli warplanes in 1981 destroyed an Iraqi nuclear reactor being
built by Saddam Hussein's regime, and many in the region fear Israel
or the U.S. could mount airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities if
Tehran doesn't bow to Western demands to cease uranium enrichment.
Iran, which says it isn't trying to produce material for atomic bombs
but rather fuel for reactors that would generate electricity, has said
in the past that Israel would be the first retaliatory target for any
attack. But Alavi's comments were the first to mention specific
contingency plans.
David Ochmanek, an international policy analyst with the U.S.-based
RAND Corporation, said Iran has the capability to attack Israel with a
limited number of ballistic missiles, but Israel could potentially
inflict greater damage on Iran.
"If Israelis attacked Iran it would be with high precision weapons
that could destroy military targets," he said. "They could destroy
Iran's nuclear reactor and do damage to the enrichment."
"The Iranian response would be quite different," Ochmanek said. "It
would be small numbers of highly innaccurate missiles and the
intention would be to do this for psychological purposes rather than
to destroy discrete targets. It's an asymmetrical relationship."
A top Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander warned earlier this week
that U.S. bases around Iran would also be legitimate targets.
"Today, the United States is within Iran's sight and all around our
country, but it doesn't mean we have been encircled. They are
encircled themselves and are within our range," Gen. Mohammed Hasan
Kousehchi told IRNA.
U.S. forces are in Iraq and Afghanistan. In the Persian Gulf, Kuwait
hosts a major U.S. base, the U.S. 5th Fleet patrols from its base in
Bahrain, and the U.S. Central Command is housed in Qatar.
Tensions have been raised by a mysterious Israeli air incursion over
Syria on Sept. 6. Israel has placed a tight news blackout on the
reported incident, while Syria has said little. U.S. officials said it
involved an airstrike on a target.
One U.S. official said the attack hit weapons heading for the Lebanese
militant group Hezbollah, an ally of Syria and Iran, but there also
has been speculation the Israelis hit a nascent nuclear facility or
were studying routes for a possible future strike on Iran.
Former Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday he was
involved "from the beginning" in the alleged airstrike, the first
public mention by an Israeli leader about the incident. Netanyahu, the
leader of the parliamentary opposition, did not give further details.
Edward Djerejian, founding director of Rice University's Baker
Institute, said the accusation that Israel had violated Syrian
airspace, and possibly launched an attack on Syrian territory, was
putting new concerns on an already tense situation.
"The region is very nervous," said Djerejian, a former U.S. ambassador
to Israel and Syria.
With Iran adding to the talk of military options, Undersecretary of
State Nicholas Burns called Wednesday for U.N. Security Council
members and U.S. allies to help push for a third round of sanctions
against Iran over its nuclear program.
But Russia's U.N. ambassador, Vitaly Churkin, said Moscow opposes new
sanctions, adding they could hurt a recent agreement between Iran and
the International Atomic Energy Agency aimed at resolving questions
about the Iranian program.
Two U.N. resolutions imposing sanctions on Iran have failed to
persuade the country to suspend uranium enrichment.
Burns said he would host a Friday meeting of the Security Council's
permanent members - the U.S., Russia, China, Britain and France. Talks
on a new resolution are also expected next week in New York, when
world leaders attend the annual ministerial session of the U.N.
General Assembly.
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Associated Press Writers Sarah DiLorenzo and Carley Petesch in New
York and Mark Lavie in Jerusalem contributed to this report
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